Design in Five

Essential Phases to Create Engaging Assessment Practice, Second Edition (Make assessments more relevant, meaningful, and focused on student learning.)

Nicole Dimich

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781960574107
• eBook ISBN: 9781960574114
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This second edition of the best-selling, award-winning Design in Five offers new and targeted information for reimagining assessment practices, as well as refined processes and protocols to fully engage learners. Refinements to the original five-phase protocol come from the actual experiences of teachers who have engaged with the process. This is the book you need to design and use assessment well.

This book will help K–12 teachers, administrators, and students of teacher preparation courses:

• Reflect on current assessment practices to determine their effectiveness
• Learn and implement a five-phase process to design meaningful, relevant assessments that lead to high levels of learning for all
• Align and design items and tasks to learning goals
• Design assessments that help students invest in their learning and take action to improve
• Access numerous reproducible surveys, charts, and sample assessments

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Defining the Design Process
Chapter 2: Choosing Standards and Planning Engagement
Chapter 3: Analyzing Standards and Constructing Learning Progressions
Chapter 4: Crafting an Assessment Plan
Chapter 5: Creating the Assessment and Gathering the Materials
Chapter 6: Determining Scoring Schemes and Student Investment Strategies
Chapter 7: Collaboratively Engaging in the Assessment Process
Epilogue: Building Hope
Appendix: Reproducibles
References and Resources
Index

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• About the Author
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1 Defining the Design Process
• 2 Choosing Standards and Planning Engagement
• 3 Analyzing Standards and Constructing Learning Progressions (Laddering)
• 4 Crafting an Assessment Plan
• 5 Creating the Assessment and Gathering the Materials
• 6 Determining a Scoring Scheme and Student-Investment Strategies
• 7 Collaboratively Engaging in the Assessment Process
• Epilogue
• Appendix
• References and Resources
• Index